VRU coverage

Susan Hall: What will be the core boroughs covered by the VRU?

The Mayor: The VRU work programme sets out a range of initiatives across London to tackle violence through a public health approach. These include support for young people affected by domestic violence and investment in London’s youth workers to support their training and development. The VRU is also supporting grassroots initiatives across London.
The VRU is working with every Community Safety Partnership to share good practice through local action plans to address violence. To support this, each borough has been allocated extra funding. This has been allocated based upon use of a GLA datatool that has been developed to overlay a range of datasets. In addition, the datatool provides the evidence base for determining areas for possibly piloting preventative initiatives at either borough or ward level. Whilst the VRU will pilot some initiatives in local areas, the VRU is not limited to just covering a set of core boroughs.

ZEC Taxis

Keith Prince: Given the request for monitoring in the Mayor’s answer to question 2019/8962, will the Mayor now disclose the ratio of ZEC taxis as requested in his refusal to answer question 2019/8963?

The Mayor: To date, Transport for London (TfL) has licensed approximately 2,300 ZEC vehicles. For TfL to determine the split between driver-owned and fleet-owned taxis comprising this number, a manual check of each licence record would be needed. This would be an extremely time consuming process and would not represent a good use of public resource.